DOVER — Forty customers were treated to a free cup o' joe Wednesday afternoon when a local business owner picked up the tab for customers of Baby Ben's Coffee House located on Dover Point Road.

At around 2 p.m., Foster's received notice that the next 40 customers to Baby Ben's Coffee House would get free coffee in honor of victims involved in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., last Friday.

Upon arrival, Foster's learned the sentiment of goodwill extended to all beverages at the shop where Ali Xenos, barista, had just begun her shift.

“I think it's great. I think it's awesome,” she said.

Having been employed with the company for roughly the last three months, Xenos said this was the first time anyone had stepped up to “pay it forward.”

The shop, owned by Ben Airey, his brother, Matt Airey, and Chris Bourbon, was contacted at some point on Wednesday by SoyPrint, an online printing distributor that prioritizes the environment above all else printing only with soy-based products, that the next 40 cups were on them.

“I think the company just wanted to do something to give back the love,” Ben Airey said.

While Ben spoke with Foster's via speakerphone with Xenos, Matt, the owner of local printing business' SoyPrint.net, could not be reached by deadline.

In the notice sent to Foster's earlier in the afternoon, the act of picking up the tab for 40 individuals was a “random act of kindness.”